2. Swamiji, if someone is a community leader or an elder in satsang satsang 1) True company. The practice of associating with Bhagvãn’s sant, other satsangis, the ãtmã, and the sacred shãstras, and also observing vartmãns and niyams. 2) Also refers to the sampradãy, which is the presence of good company. Tap to open in glossary → 3. We should understand and save ourselves. Suppose someone is a political leader. We tell them to improve. 4. That cannot be said. Our duty is only not to get caught in their trap. So, no matter what field the leader is from, the operation of the big ones does not happen. 5. The operation of the small ones happens. The atmosphere is created from top to bottom. And if you want to make improvements, do it from the bottom; we should not go too high up, because we cannot operate on them. 6. On the contrary, there is that example. That it rained, there was unseasonal rain in winter. And it was very cold. 7. So the monkeys shivered. And they gathered rosary peas and blew on them, saying it would make fire. Then the bird on the tree. 8. It poked its head out. It said, "Oh, monkey brother, God has given you such a good body, and you don't build a good house. If you had built a house, how useful it would be now." 9. "Look at our nest." So the monkey said, "Suchimukhi durachari panditam vadine." 10. "You talk big. I am not capable of building a house, but I am capable of destroying a house." Saying this, it jumped and broke the nest and threw it down. So, what you are saying, giving advice to the big ones, results in this. 11. Suchimukhi durachari. That is, they are capable of breaking our house, or no one likes advice very much. We are sitting here, and we are giving you advice; it is your compulsion where to go, otherwise you would have given us all advice. 12. And you would have made us straight. But nothing works for you; we don't believe your advice in this. So, taking advice is very difficult. 13. No one likes to take advice. Giving it feels good. So that's how it is. 14. So, what you are saying is not correct. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details